The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-09
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Little bedpost bells rung BY cleo
trielty are now used to waken sluggards
In Belgium.
A blind citizen Of Steubenville. Ohio.
claims TO be able TO tell the color of
horse by the sense of touch.
Kaiser Wilhelm is economical lie
uses "A second time nearly all the
envelopes of the documents addressed
10 him
IL Is said there is but one building in
the city of Buffalo. N. Y, to-day that
conforms exactly with the building
regulations.
A steamer with stirring screw has
just cut the water that rolls 'twixt
Dover and Calais in fifty-eight minutes
That is how far England and France
are apart
Arizona has but ten counties, and
Pima is the oldest of them all IL was
settled by Europeans. aud its early
history makes up the annals of Arizona
for more than 15O years.
Gen. Roger A Pryor still wears his
hair long and still carries himself like a
soldier. but he is notably siouter and
dresses less like a Virginian and more
like Broadway man.
Zigzag lightning seized by the camera
of NJ Mousette, in Paris. proved 10 be
a spiral The streak cork-screwed its
way from the cloud instantly to the
much-smitten earth.
L. A. Edwards. of Union City. Erie
county, Pa. owns live white robin. Ii
was captured young in the spring of
1895. and is robin in structure. song
nd hal (, inc
The Rey. DIR. J. @. Armstrong of
Atlanta, the somewhat sensational
preacher who strongly resembles Wilkes
Booth. has abandoned the pulpit and
gone into the life-insurance business
Miss Nellie Nevada Moore is the chief
architect and builder of "A charming
house in which she lives near Piitsburg.
She wears trousers when doing mems
work. bat when that is over she dens
skirts again.
The retail grocers of Winnipeg.
Manitoba. have formed an association
for mutual protection. especially against
local grocery and provision peddlers,
and the system of retailing carried on
by wholesale dealers.
A Vienna writing master has written
forty French words on grain of wheat
good eyes Ii has been placed in a
glass case and presented to the French
Academy Of Sciences.
Children playing in the bed Of Silver
Greek. right in the city of Silyerton.
Ore. found a piece of gold-bearing rock
very rich in the precious metal. aud now
there is gold craze among the in
habitants of the little city.
Senator Butler of South Carolina is
said To strongly resemble the face of
Commodore Perry as depicted in the
painting ia the capital AT Washington.
Commodore Perry was Senator Butler's
uncle ON his mothers side
DIR. Boyd-Carpenter. Bishop of Ripon.
when laying "A cornerstone recently
was invited by the architect TO become
an Operative mason" for a few min
utes. No" said he. IL cannot become
an operative mason; but 1 am work
ing Carpenter."
The emperor of China's new throne
IN Shanghai is to have its foundation
and pedestal made of gold bricks, ana
the sub-prefeet of Sochow has sent 10
Pekin 5000 pieces of solid gold bricks,
of the ordinary shape of clay bricks.
for this purpose
Judge Tour zee OF Fool 5 Errand'
fame has invented a harness for horses
which does away with leather alto
gether, and consists entirely of brass
and steel. He hopes to make fortune
out of his patent 10 reimburse him for
his losses IN publishing the G,HtsHeat.
There has been formed in London an
association-.'The Society for the Pre-
vention of HydFophobia and the Re
E.k.. Ia 4
main object the enforcement OF a better
control over dogs One OF its methods
will be TO accomplish the destruction of
DOGS off low degree.